El used to shine. Now he hides in a quiet beachside studio, mixing silence instead of songs. Then Sofi arrives — a blunt, chaotic girl chasing the voice of her drowned sister through a warped cassette. She brings noise. He only knows silence. But somewhere between tape rewinds, unfinished song...

Kaito Asano, a 34-year-old aspiring author, once tasted fame with his debut novel, Delusional Distress, a critical and commercial success. But since then, he’s struggled to replicate that achievement. Each subsequent work has either been rejected or ignored, leaving him branded as a one-hit wonde...

I knew that my quantum processor allowed me to have a wide range of emotions but this was not the reason Eva wanted me on her team. I was supposed to help her research, where my abilities to compute complex equations in nanoseconds made perfect sense. But you couldn’t build a quantum chip with th...

After getting caught stealing, 14 year old Marina is sent to volunteer at a hospital she can't stand. Then she meets Rei, a boy who smiles too much for someone always out of breath — and whose room smells more like the ocean than antiseptic.

In the year 2068, Martin Irinov, an almost graduated high school boy, got struck by the lighting of luck and had to change schools. Coincidentally, his father`s new job was in S city, one of the best technologically advanced cities on Earth. As Martin thought of nothing, but being in the capital ...

Haru Shiraishi is a plain, boring boy who enjoys his peaceful life, of being away from any spotlight. This all changed when he witnessed the rejection of the most beautiful girl in school, Fuyuki Ayako. Being a witness to an impossible scene, he finds himself being caught up to the spotlight of F...

Inoue Ayami, is a 3rd year high school student from Ichinomiya, who was not expecting much at all at this time of night. It was just a breezy summer night and she was in the middle of her walk to the supermarket. All Ayami wanted was a simple meat bowl. Instead, she was greeted by a strange b...

After moving from Tokyo to Florida, a teenage boy finds himself stuck between two worlds-his past and his uncertain future. He's not homesick or broken. He's just... lost. As he navigates a quiet life in a new country, where nothing feels quite right, he begins questioning everything: what lif...

ADV Absolute Death Virus means you have only a few months left to live. Hachi runs a coffee shop and deals with customers as they cope with their own mortality.

"For my beloved Yong, I love you." In every whisper of the wind, in every flicker of a candle, there lies a story waiting to be told. Echoes of a Thousand Tales is a collection of short stories woven from dreams, destiny, and the timeless echoes of love. Each tale is a journey—across mythical ...